Use Warning- Indian Kukri with the Wooden Handle and
the center raised band.

Especially if you are not used to working with your hands, you may want to
wear work gloves when using this tool. You might want to wrap the handle
with tape.

If the handle is not gripped tightly, it can hurt you. One day I
decided to I decided to hold the handle somewhat loosely, as I do a hammer
handle, to allow for a final "snap" as I struck the object. The whole
process of holding a Kukri handle loosely is quite dangerous. It even flew
out of my hand, once, and spun around, as I ran away from it.

Some recommend taking out the center enlarged "ring" part of the handle.
The center band of the handle caused me some pain, in use, handle held loosely,
and subsequent pain, days later. I have since modified it.

I would NOT add a lanyard, or string, to the base of the Kukri handle, as
some recommend. If the above incident had happened, and the knife broken
from my hand, I would not have been able to "get away from it," and might have
seriously been hurt.

Read these, for
information on how you might modify your Kukri for the field:

With all that, I still recommend this
type of Kukri knife. I am still working the handle down on mine, and to
not know whether to tape it with electricians tape, or what. Picture
below is of the stage my handle conversion is at, today. It is already
more comfortable. (Know that I have three of these knives, and am working
with converting all three, that is how much I like them.) Please remember
that this knife is for use, not for show, and try it out, before hand.
Simply buying some work gloves, and using them, will solve the problem.
Paul.